| Show ALL THINGS IN ORDER ordell if WE are d drifting fast into one of the ways of the sectarians sect anians arians every day or ai two and occasionally two or three times in one day a subscription list is placed under ones nose dose and an appeal made to td help som eperson from the old world or pr t to hid aid some absent elder on a mission or to as siston sis t j n some measure which however praiseworthy orthy in it ajeet eject in our opinion should not be usually attempted in this way my house is a house of order saith the lord there are regulations existing in the church for the accomplishment acco m of all nil the endsle ends designed in these private collection plans the perpetual emigration fund for the gathering ot the poor arrangements in each mission for the pressing needs of the elders traveling therein donation funds at home for the support of the indigent besides the tithing fund a portion of which is appropriated to that purpose these are the legitimate channels through which needful help should flow and into which the means that are donated should be poured in mcaward each ward of the church there is a bishop who is ordained and appointed for the special purpose of attending to the temporal needs of tile the ward vard he is assisted I 1 ballis by his counselors and a corps of teachers and it appears to us that all these measures for local relief belong of right to the bishops and their assistants si in their respective wards or districts there maybe y be exceptional cases where a private subscription might be proper but as a general ruie rule we think all these things should be managed by the local authorities people do not like to refuse contributing to a cause that appears to be worthy particularly when a lady or some male personal friend presents the list for a subscription but this thing thi ng is getting getti g too frea frequent ue nt an and d in 1 n our opinion ought to be checked or rather turned into the regular and legitimate channels according to the order and system of government established in the church and really when a latter day saint pays his tithing and contributes to the recognized funds for the relief of the poor etc etc although lie he may not refuse to pay his mite to a private collector for some worthy object he ho generally feels that he has done about all MAHN that is consistent in ln regular way and that lils this i irre inre irregular ular 6 addition dd is lq spreading it on oh a little too thick we do not mgt wish to throw cold yater water water on that warm charity which is is sor so rare in brithe the world worl d but merely t ta suggest the propriety of doing all things 1 in order and aid 1 riat ruin nuin running 9 the 8 subscription lausi business n es s into the ground 1 |
